Bigger Hospitals Provide Better Care, Study Finds; Death Rates Lowest at...

The Washington Post;  October 7, 1992 ;     477 words ......and have lower death rates than small rural hospitals, a study of more...states has found. Death rates in rural or suburban...Doctors at small rural hospitals often failed to...measure quality: death rates; grading of diagnosis...

HEART ATTACK DEATH RATES NOT HIGHER AT IOWA'S RURAL HOSPITALS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 5, 2007 ;     664 words ......previous studies, rural hospitals in Iowa do provide...do not have higher death rates when compared to urban...from 119 urban and rural hospitals in Iowa, used a different...hospitals have higher death rates for heart attack care...with a heart attack. ...

Fed: Doctors urge major parties to commit to rural hospitals

AAP General News (Australia);  September 27, 2004 ;     285 words ......Doctors urge major parties to commit to rural hospitals EDS: EMBARGOED TO 0500 AEST TUESDAY...guarantee enough funding to ensure small rural hospitals could keep their doors open. The Rural...quarantining existing funding for rural hospitals to avoid more closures. The association...

Rural hospitals meet challenges to continue serving critical needs

The Mississippi Business Journal;  July 12, 2004 ;   Gillette, Becky;   787 words ...In recent years, the number of rural hospitals closing in Mississippi has decreased...always changing." Another big issue for rural hospitals is deciding what services they should...a good handle on that issue helps rural hospitals remain financially viable. "Rural...

Rural hospitals meet challenges to continue serving critical needs.(Focus...

Mississippi Business Journal;  July 12, 2004 ;   Gillette, Becky;   787 words ...In recent years, the number of rural hospitals closing in Mississippi has decreased...always changing. Another big issue for rural hospitals is deciding what services they should...a good handle on that issue helps rural hospitals remain financially viable. Rural ...

Rural hospitals

The Press;  October 31, 2003 ;     170 words ......up and acknowledge the value of its rural hospitals, and fund them accordingly. Rural hospitals have effectively provided a wide range...same, gets funded and applauded, but rural hospitals are ignored. Rural hospitals only survive...

Rural Route; Healthcare organizations lead drive for quality measures...

Modern Healthcare;  May 16, 2005 ;   Mantone, Joseph;   787 words ......line. We do not want to leave out rural hospitals and pay-for-performance,'' says Mary...quality of care can be applied to rural hospitals. One example of a measure that is...that rate aspects of care unique to rural hospitals also should be developed as quality...

Country is king; Congress is singing a rural tune on health spending this...

Modern Healthcare;  February 5, 2001 ;   Gardner, Jonathan;   703 words ...Rural hospitals are now Congress' healthcare cause...on key congressional committees, rural hospitals and other healthcare providers may...package enacted late last year, rural hospitals were the biggest beneficiaries of...

BALANCED BUDGET ACT AND RURAL HOSPITALS:CHUCK GRASSLEY

Congressional Testimony;  July 11, 2000 ;     787 words ......Testimony of Senator Chuck Grassley on Rural Hospitals Senate Appropriations Committee Agriculture...this hearing on the condition of our rural hospitals. The name of this subcommittee includes...to me that over 60% of the state's rural hospitals lost money on patient care last ...

Rural Hospitals: Organizational Alignments for Managed Care Contracting.

Journal of Healthcare Management;  March 1, 1998 ;   McKay, Niccie L.;   787 words ......comprehensive menu of possibilities so that rural hospitals, given their own needs and objectives...likely to be most attractive to rural hospitals that have a strong patient base. Second, rural hospitals will be more likely to enter into...

Congress should go country; Rural hospitals need what little help feds are...

Modern Healthcare;  April 22, 2002 ;   Sloane, Todd;   604 words ......money from every provider group, but rural hospitals have made the most powerful case for...in the cities. The nation's 2,600 rural hospitals receive more than 40% of their revenue...Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, rural hospitals will lose an average of 3% for all...

Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals Urges Congress to Expand Federal...

PR Newswire;  September 14, 2000 ;     360 words ......term relief for the state's financially strapped rural hospitals. Kingston's Medicaid Relief for Rural Hospitals bill would clear the way for state governments to allow rural hospitals that do not provide obstetric services to participate...

MEDICARE Bills urge funding for rural hospitals

The Topeka Capital-Journal;  April 9, 2003 ;   Nicholas Rummell Capital-Journal;   370 words ......The Capital-Journal WASHINGTON --- Rural hospitals, fighting an increasingly uphill battle...which would bump up reimbursements to rural hospitals to the same level as urban hospitals...increase Medicare reimbursement for rural hospitals by roughly $1,000 a bed, as well as...

AHA's bid to aid rural hospitals hit.(American Hospital...

Modern Healthcare;  June 18, 2001 ;   Gardner, Jonathan;   297 words ......15 billion in Medicare revenue to rural hospitals over the next decade, some 40 members...MedPAC did endorse some new money for rural hospitals, such as a special payment increase...discharges a year and an increase in rural hospitals' Medicare disproportionate share hospital...

Lawmakers Offer Treatment for Ills of Rural Hospitals

Yakima Herald-Republic;  March 13, 2001 ;     525 words ...OLYMPIA (AP) - Small rural hospitals have faced a grim budget prognosis...if not a cure, for what ails rural hospitals. The House unanimously passed...reimbursements for eight small rural hospitals that need it the most. The...